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[#JusticiaParaBerta #JusticeforBreonnaTaylor @stephinlala]

"You can be the person who turns toward, not away from, the chance to rise above the fray." #RestInPower Gwen Ifill https://t.co/TyShn24TZf

[Isaac G. Bryan @ib2_real]

Important to know this week 👇🏽

[Angel City FC @weareangelcity]

Arriving in style 🪽

#Volemos | #NWSL | #LAvNC | #AngelCityFC

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Everyone wants to argue about what adults should or shouldn’t read. “Don’t read kids’ books.” “Read the classics.” Read both. Read widely. Read for knowledge and pleasure, read for the joy of a good story, read for wisdom and escape, read for no reason at all. Just read.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

When I tell you Los Angeles is an occupied city/county, this is what I mean…

Yesterday, ICE agents showed up to a regular Saturday swap meet with armed Marines and a military helicopter overhead, like it’s a fucking war zone.

[W Golazo @WGolazo]

Los Angeles is for everyone. Los Ángeles es para todos.

[Dyab Abou Jahjah @Aboujahjah]

Two days ago, Israel assassinated nine Iranian scientists — university professors and researchers — in targeted airstrikes. Some of them were killed together with their families. Western media is acting as if this is an act of war.
Yet, this is a war crime, here’s why. 🧵 1/

[Housing 4 All is Hot @ahouse4all]

Some happy news:

Community members have fundraised enough money to keep 30 LA street vendors home for a month. Rent, food, bills paid so they don't have to risk getting kidnapped + go outside and sell.

So proud of my community.

If you'd like to support the effort:

[#JusticiaParaBerta #JusticeforBreonnaTaylor @stephinlala]

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[Fight for a Union @FightForAUnion]

Fact. #NoKings

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Breaking: HHS is canceling a $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

[Nnedi Okorafor, PhD🕷️ @Nnedi]

The literary giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (and one of my favorite authors) has passed. 😔 Wizard of the Crow is a masterpiece. He has MANY greats.

I'm glad I got to meet him a few times (I always encouraged him to write a science fiction novel...he said he'd consider it).

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

Children burn alive. Human beings mass murdered for 19 months straight and politicians, academics and journalists still deliberate terms and sensitivities about the apocalypse we watch.

Countless precious lives extinguished daily in this barbaric war of conquest. Hospitals are a target. Journalists are a target. Babies. Everyone. The opponents to these horrors are criminalized and terrorized globally, silenced into submission.

The perpetrators broadcast their crimes and intent to exterminate clearly. The brazen display by Israeli officials, coupled with the genocidal attitude of Israeli society shows where nuclear-armed impunity leads.

World leaders utter obligatory disapproval of the unending war crimes and forced starvation of millions, while they feed the genocidaires money, weapons and diplomatic cover. They pretend Netanyahu is the anomaly, and his annihilatory policies not emblematic of Zionism.

As the genocide becomes undeniable, their self-rehabilitation campaign begins. They want to wash their hands of Gaza so they can preserve their apartheid colony and military garrison in the Middle East.

They are buying just enough time for Israel to erase Gaza and either kill—or push out—two million people, horrifically altering the course of history, cementing generations of unimaginable trauma and consequence.

As is often said, Gaza is a test that exposes the savagery of imperialism, issued as a threat by the powerful. But Gaza is also a mirror, exposing the humanity that binds us, and for far too many, our lack thereof.

Moaz Mousa, the brilliant videographer from Gaza Fights For Freedom, is still surviving in Gaza. He is now the caretaker of nearly 30 people, after five of his brothers and father were murdered in the genocide.

The other day he told me this:

“I don’t know what to say to this world cast in a wax mold. You need Gaza, contrary to what you think. You need Gaza to feel your humanity. You need Gaza to feel that the hearts in your chest are still working. You need it above all, to pass the test of conscience. You need Gaza to feel the truth of your humanity and the truth of the purpose of your existence.

But as for Gaza, despite all the tragedies it occupies, it is the freest. It has the ability to rebel, to scream in the face of the world, it has the ability to demand its rights, it believes in its right to life, and it believes in its pursuit of the necessity of its existence.”

Moaz is right. Not only do we need Gaza in order to fight for some distant idea of international law and universal human rights. We need Gaza to prove that we are still human at all—after all the inhumanity, the barbarism and bloodshed we have witnessed. Without Gaza, I don’t know what we will be, and what kind of world we will be left with. And that should terrify us all.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

"If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history."
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[Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @RepAOC]

It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid.

While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

They want you to tune out. Don’t⬇️
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[Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @RepJasmine]

Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country!

It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

About half of all births are covered by Medicaid.

Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid.

More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.

So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.

[Rep. Lauren Underwood @RepUnderwood]

My committee just received a last-minute addition to the Coast Guard’s spend plan: $50 million for a new Gulfstream 5 jet for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s personal use. She already has a Gulfstream 5, by the way, but she wants a new one paid for with your taxpayer dollars.

We should be investing in our national security and improving the lives of our Coasties – not wasting taxpayer dollars on luxury travel and political stunts.

I'm demanding answers. LIVE now: https://t.co/6Mkj8YaROz

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Let's tell the true story of Medicaid. Yes, it insures many working families. But it's also the insurer of last resort for children with such complicated diseases that no private company will cover them. If the Republican cuts to Medicaid go through, many of those kids will die.

[Data for Progress @DataProgress]

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.